Latest horror in Palestine again ignored by Israel

I try hard to get on with life and ignore the horrors in Palestine, but sometimes a piece of news literally makes me weep. Imagine if this had happened in Belfast during the Troubles.

On Wednesday, a young mother of two, five months pregnant, approached an Israeli checkpoint to go to a doctor’s appointment in Jerusalem.

She had got a special Israeli permit to do so, and it was her first time to go there. Her brother aged 16 came with her. By mistake, she approached the driving checkpoint rather than the pedestrian one. Soldiers shouted at her in Hebrew and she didn’t understand. Then she stopped, baffled, to turn back. She was shot dead. Her brother ran to help her, and he, too, was shot dead.